I'm having a relaxed and lazy one today. Cue face masks, lots of coffee and sitting around in my PJ's. Fabulous.

What are you doing for your NYE celebrations? I think for us its going to be a curry and some vino. I don't really like going out on NYE - all that holding hands with strangers doing Auld Lang Syne - its not for me!!

Wow. Lets just get it out there, let it out, set it free. Wow. I am 38 years old - clearly not the intended target market for this film. Frozen in case you are wondering is the film in question.

I've heard the songs of course. By gosh, you would have to be under a rock the past year if you had somehow avoided hearing either 'Let it Go' or 'Do you want to build a snowman'!

Frozen was released in 2013, but its taken me until now to watch it. Its all about Elsa and Anna. Princesses of Arendelle. Elsa accidentally freezes Anna whilst playing as children, so her parents tell her to hide her gift. Her gift being that she can produce snow and ice.

As they grow up, Elsa hides herself away. Anna sings to her 'do you want to build a snowman' but Elsa won't come out. Their parents die on as a storm hits their boat. Elsa, years later, is to be crowned queen. At her coronation though, everyone learns of her abilities. She flees, singing the now infamous 'let it go'.

Anna goes after her, having fallen in love with a prince she just met. He takes over in her absence. Anna meets Kristoff and his reindeer Sven. They then encounter Olaf - the snowman Elsa bought to life.

Anna finds Elsa, but in her panic, Elsa freezes Anna's heart. Kristoff takes Anna to the trolls, who bought him up. They know all about true love. Kristoff takes her back to Arendelle, narrowly escaping the snow monster. Kristoff leaves her with her true love, as an act of true love can save Anna.

Unfortunately, Hans is a conman and he leaves Anna to die. Olaf rescues her, and Kristoff comes racing back to save her. Elsa has been captured and trapped in the castle. Hans orders her to be killed. Elsa though, escapes. Hans finds Elsa and tells her that Anna is dead. In her grief, Elsa causes the storm to stop.

Anna is told by Olaf that Kristoff is in love with her. They try to reach each other. Anna's hair has turned totally white as her heart freezes. She almost reaches Kristoff, but sees that Hans is going to kill Elsa and she jumps in front of his sword. Anna freezes. Elsa hugs her, and slowly Anna thaws - her act of true love has thawed her frozen heart.

Anna and Kristoff share their first kiss, Elsa learns love is the key to her powers. Olaf is given his own weather cloud to protect him and stop him melting, and Hans is taken for his punishment. Plus the elders are sacked. Happily every after!!

This is, quite possibly, one of the best films ever, and the best original songs to a film ever. At some point I hope that I stop singing them to my long suffering family as I am no singer!! Fabulous. Just fabulous.

I watched a lot of films, and reviewed some of them over at my film review page. It was fun, but I need to get into new films much much more. More film reviews will feature in 2015, but here are this years to keep you good.

I discovered my love of music in 2014. I spent a week with 19 artists. I chose 32 singles of the week. I went to see Robbie Williams and Rod Stewart in concert. You can check it all out here at My Music page.

However, 2015 is going to be even bigger and even better. Already, I have tickets for Take That and Taylor Swift. I plan to add more to that.

But I want more music, more singles, and more than anything, I want to get involved more in new music. So that's the plan for 2015, but for now, I'm taking a nice look back on 2014.

Its nearly new year. So, to record not only my resolutions, but also my progress on said resolutions, plus my plans and events for next year, I have set up a new page - 2015. (there's nothing on it yet of course!).

What it will contain is my list of resolutions. These will be posted over the coming days. However, I do not want to do what I do every year. As in make the resolution, break the resolution, forget all about the resolution. Oh no no no. Not this year!!

This year - I will make them and be answerable to them - as they will be there for all to see. Here's hoping it works!!

I saw these Hunter wellies in the shops whilst shopping with my other half. He paled at the thought of how much they cost and pronounced £95 for a pair of wellies obscene. I therefore had slim prospect of getting these in my stocking. I took a picture of them to remind myself. I wasn't too fussed as I wasn't expecting snow or anything....

So imagine my surprise when Christmas morning, I opened a suspiciously large box containing my lovely red wellies!! Hoorah!!

Boy oh boy did this turn out to be good timing. Where would I have been without them this past 3 days. Fabulous!! They have been well christened with the white stuff. Best present ever!!

Tuesday, 23 December 2014

This evening was a grueller. Finished work at 5pm, then battled my way through the traffic to pick up a reserve and collect gift.

From there, it was onto Tesco for a few "bits". An hour and a half later, £200 + spent, I emerged - frazzled and annoyed. So many people, so many empty shelves where stuff should be. Stuff that I needed. Stuff that was on my list.

It was like armageddon not Christmas was looming. I mean c'mon - the shops are open again in 2 days!! Some even on Boxing Day!!

I made it home for about 7.30pm. Then it was stripping the bedding and sticking in the wash. The other half had done a sterling job of the cleaning, all bar the hoovering.

So it was onto the wrapping. First up though, a bit of furniture removal. G has had a lovely silver dressing table with mirror, so we set it up in her room. However, the drawer set she had already, is the matching silver one. So I wanted to find a place for it. We ended up moving the bed, the drawers - rearranging the whole room basically!!

Then it was the wrapping. Finally got done about 10.30pm. Now having a much needed glass of vino. I deserve it, as for once, Christmas Eve is to be enjoyed. Absolutely nothing left to do. Perfect :)